First-time camera access to an NHS intensive care unit has laid bare the mounting pressure being loaded upon medics treating coronavirus patients. A glimpse inside Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) showcases health workers’ daily grind on the front line, which they described as emotionally draining and ‘scary’. Tonight’s report from the so-called ‘red zone’ included dire … Read more
Mao Zedong, invented a term for ‘reactionaries’ in the West who made threats against his regime. He called them ‘paper tigers’ — the ancient Chinese word is zhilaohu. What Mao (whose vast portrait still looms over Beijing’s Tiananmen Square) meant was that we, to use an equally colourful English expression, were all mouth and no … Read more
Deal: Wizz Air boss Jozsef Varadi bought £643,000 of the airline’s shares No-one knows where share prices are going to go from here, though some smart hedge fund managers may think they do. Markets in Britain and the US rallied a little last week, but there were sharp corrections along the way. Volatility, it seems, … Read more